This is one of the most incredible teachers I have ever had the privilege to learn from at UCLA. Her lectures are succinct and interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone to take this class because it will teach you so many valuable things about finance. Prof Gardner was kind and I found that when it came to reasonable requests, she happily granted them. By FAR the best teacher I have had at UCLA and she teaches the information incredibly well.

I took Management 1A Winter quarter 2020-21 remotely. The class was asynchronous, which I appreciated as the lecture material was extremely organized and recorded in a way to deliberately emphasize and repeat important concepts beyond what I have typically seen in person. I do wish that it had typical discussion sections - sections were open Q&As with TAs that while helpful, didn't reinforce concepts in a way a true section would.

The grading was 10% Assignment 1 (Recording transactions for a fictitious business and preparing financial documents), 10% Assignment 2 (Research and mild financial analysis on Berkshire Hathaway), 40% Midterm and 40% Final. If you watched the lectures, and did the practice problems in the textbook in my opinion it is a straightforward class. Prof. Treloar could have been more responsive to emails, but overall this was a well organized and taught class.

I took Management 1A Winter quarter 2020-21 remotely. The class was asynchronous, which I appreciated as the lecture material was extremely organized and recorded in a way to deliberately emphasize and repeat important concepts beyond what I have typically seen in person. I do wish that it had typical discussion sections - sections were open Q&As with TAs that while helpful, didn't reinforce concepts in a way a true section would.

The grading was 10% Assignment 1 (Recording transactions for a fictitious business and preparing financial documents), 10% Assignment 2 (Research and mild financial analysis on Berkshire Hathaway), 40% Midterm and 40% Final. If you watched the lectures, and did the practice problems in the textbook in my opinion it is a straightforward class. Prof. Treloar could have been more responsive to emails, but overall this was a well organized and taught class.

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Gardner is a shallow lecturer and loves to go off tangents and crack jokes no one laughs at. However, her tests are very very FAIR. She tells you exactly what will be on the exam.

1. Go to lectures. She explains everything you need to know specifically for exams.

2. The midterm and final are non-cumulative and cover material solely in the course reader so reading that will be all you need.

3. Don't go to discussions if you don't need to. TA told me that first day.

4. Start assignment #2 early and really understand it. Not that hard, just takes time.

5. Though she says homework problems are essential, they really aren't. Just understand the key concepts and you will do great.

Some people liked Gardner, but out of all the classes I've taken at UCLA, she was definitely the professor I hated the most.

Very hard, especially if you have no background in accounting. I honestly didn't know what I was getting myself into. That being said, I probably should have taken Litt or taken the class P/NP. This class requires a lot of studying and the 4 main projects we do are completely irrelevant in my opinion. Doing the homework helps but her tests are very time sensitive and difficult. The TA sections didn't even start until week 6, the week of the first midterm, and they were helpful to some extent. If you are serious about the biz econ major and are willing to put in the work, go for it. She is a great lecturer, just extremely hard.

After 4 years at UCLA I took this class during my senior year because I fulfilled all my requirements and wanted to take a potentially helpful class. After dozens of professors and classes I have taken, I can say without a single doubt, Gardner is heads and shoulders EASILY the worst professor I have ever had at this school. She is extremely condescending to her students and would blabber on about her personal biases every.single.day. (cryptocurrency is satan and everyone should spend their entire savings on apple stocks). She tells her student being a minute late in submission would be a 50% marked down in all assignments but she is late 10-15minutes every single class without missing a day. Also her required course reader is almost $100 that isn't even half-utilized and not to mention she gives out a lot of workload which a lot of them ending up being redundant or irrelevant.
I could go for days about how she is such a terrible professor. I'd suggest that you actually visit her class sometimes to see how condescending she is to her students and how terrible her course materials are. It's always a good idea to know how low the bar could be.
Her presence on the school campus is an embarrassment to the educational institution of UCLA.

Professor Gardner is hands down the best professor I have had at UCLA so far. I really enjoyed taking this class with her because she makes her lectures exciting and she is excellent at explaining things clearly and thoroughly. Breakdown of her class: 35% midterm, 35% final, 30% assignments (broken down into 4 assignments: 10%, 9%, 8%, 1% and then a 5th assignment that is pass/no pass but I think basically everyone passes it). The pass/no pass assignment is a lot of work as it takes 14-20 hours to finish however it is so similar to the content and format of the midterm and is super useful for studying. She uses a course reader which is super helpful and the exams are SO similar to the course reader in terms of content and format. She gives 3% extra credit for filling out the course evaluation and curved our midterm to make an 84 an A-/A. BOTH exams are all free response which is actually really nice because you get a lot of partial credit back. That being said, you need to study pretty hard for the exams and at least 5 days in advance. She assigns textbook problems that aren't graded but I recommend doing them because they are honestly really helpful. Overall, Gardner wants you to do well in her class and the future as she brought the Big 4 Accounting firms to class to network with and give our resumes to. I have been to her office hours a few times and she has been so helpful for class content questions and questions about my career.

So let me preface this review by saying that it's true that this class can be difficult; honestly, it was the hardest of my freshman year. Also, Gardner can be strict about deadlines, which is annoying. My best advice is just to prepare well in advance for assignments. There are five assignments total that range wildly in difficulty from printing out a pdf to filling out a super long busy work packet about Warren Buffett (for whom the professor has a weird hard-on). I will say, though, that in both mgmt 1A & 1B, Gardner curved every exam up while also giving a bit of extra credit each quarter (like 3% on the final or something like that) if you filled out her course evaluation. The material of the class is quite interesting for anyone who wants to learn more about the inner workings of businesses, and Gardner has a lot of experience and knowledge about this subject (her stories about fraud and past clients were pretty funny). She has a lot of energy and enthusiasm for this subject which makes her in-person lectures very engaging. In fact, after classes were online because of COVID for the first month of the quarter, the difference in energy between Gardner in her video recordings versus in-person was like night and day, to a hilarious extent. Overall, the word of this class is PREPARE. Prepare for exams because there is a lot of jargon and rules to accounting that you need to just memorize (like a coding language if you've learned one before). Set aside the time to do everything you need to for this class, and, in return, this class along with Gardner's 1B will prepare you extremely well for everything you'll do in mgmt & accounting down the line.

I don't wish to speak poorly of any professor. I understand my own shortcomings and what I could have done to improve and be better but dang yall! First off, this class was taken right before we switched to remote learning. Before this, our syllabus states that our grade was meant to encompass homework assignments as well as a midterm and a final, but in the end, she only calculated those two. Also, she was very difficult to reach via email and wasn't really helpful at all. Even our TA's were critical of her. She also has an engineering background which makes her good at math, but there are things she could have explained in a different way to a majority business students class. Of course, this is not a math-intensive course; however, it still sucks. I understand accounting is just simply not for me. Good luck!!!